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Monday, 31 August 2015

The DHC-6 Operators Tables for the following regions have been updated:

Asia

Australia/PNG/Oceania

Canada

Caribbean/Central America/Mexico

Europe

Indian Ocean

South America

U.S.A.

766 - DHC-6-300 C-GKPV Unity Group Ltd., Airdrie, AB

31-Aug-2015Planned

North Bend, OR (KOTH/OTH) - Honolulu, HI (PHNL/HNL)

C-GKPV is flight planned for the first transpacific sector today. with a flight plan just shy of 14 hours en route. Of course, the departure from the mainland is dependent on both en route and destination weather.

Saturday, 29 August 2015

Arrived Biak-Frans Kaisiepo 29-Aug-2015 on delivery to DimonimAir. The company currently operates a fleet which includes Cessna 208B Grand Caravans, a PAC750 and an ATR-72. Their headquarters is in Jakarta with service to Nabire, Wamena, Tanah Merah, Timika and Bali.

The aircraft will become PK-HVM, and can be seen in the photo below after arrival in Biak. It also appears that they are using the former Merpati hangar.

Dimonim Air have also leased an additional DHC-6-300 from CAAMS Leasing, (MSN 389 N288SA) which will become PK-HVN.

This aircraft is expected to be on static display in Victoria, BC 08/10-Sep-2015 at Viking's Operators Forum, and will be ferried to Indonesia by Southern Cross Aviation after the conference.

Although originally filed as direct from Olds to Spokane, the aircraft made a brief stop in Airdrie again, before settling off for Spokane and North Bend, OR.

The delivery flight is being undertaken by Calgary's World Wide Ferry, and the routing will take it initially to the Oregon coast before proceeding across the Pacific to Indonesia. On arrival there the

aircraft will become PK-VIL, which is already carried under stickers.

Information on the new operator can be found in the blog entry just below.

New Indonesian carrier Skycab Aviation is set to begin scheduled operations shortly with two DHC-6-300's. Although based in Jakarta, Skycab's operation will be in the Indonesian province of Papua, with bases at Merauke's Mopah Airport and Nabire.

The company is expecting delivery of their two aircraft shortly. One of the two has been identified as MSN 766 currently pending departure from Canada, which will become PK-VIL. The second aircraft is set to become PK-VKL.

Two days after MASWings 9M-SSB departed the runway landing at Mukah, Sarawak, Japan's First Flying DHC-6-400 JA201D has experienced a runway excursion at Aguni, Japan.

The aircraft was arriving from Naha-Okinawa with 12 passengers and two crew onboard, when it departed the right side of the runway, impacted a drainage ditch and then collided with adjacent bushes. All passengers & crew received minor injuries and were transported to hospital, while the aircraft has reportedly received substantial damage.

First Flying had only begun scheduled Twin Otter operations earlier this month.

RN Aircraft, a division of Russia's gaint Rosneft petroleum company have ordered a total of ten DHC-6-400's from Viking Air. The order was announced by Rosneft at the currently ongoing MAKS 2015 airshow in Moscow.

Deliveries of the aircraft will commence in Nov-2015 and run through Feb-2017. The aircraft will be used primarily in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region.

I would guess that MSN 928 C-GFAP which arrived unpainted in Victoria a couple days ago may be the first aircraft, given the timing of the first delivery in Nov-2015.

Wednesday, 26 August 2015

MASWings DHC-6-400 9M-SSB has been involved in a runway excursion at Mukah, Sarawak. The aircraft was arriving from Miri in heavy rain and strong winds. It would appear the aircraft suffered little to no damage in the event, and there were no injuries to the 8 passengers and 2 crew.

Tuesday, 25 August 2015

As seen in the photograph below, the aircraft is currently having the ferry tanks installed in Calgary, AB. Once preparations have been completed the aircraft will be delivered by Worldwide Ferry to the owner in Fiji.

There is a significant amount of movement under way with the fleet at the moment, and further details will be forthcoming as information is firmed up, and Customer details are allowed to be made public. In general terms, in addition to MSN 923 above we have imminent Series 400 deliveries to Tara Air in Nepal, and Air Seychelles, and another pending for a currently undisclosed operator.

Within the legacy fleet, we can expect to see movement on a couple aircraft from Mexico, the completion of one delivery to Indonesia and the start of another, and potentially one aircraft coming out of South America.

Ikhana continues to prepare the next 200HG™ for European Coastal, and also have MSN 40 (N902RT) and 51 (N903RT) available for sale. Series 200X2 MSN 87 (N807RT), Series 300X2 MSN 247 (N224SA) and MSN 470 (N805RT) are all also available.

Saturday, 22 August 2015

At the time of writing, N888PV is now 500+ miles from McMinnville, OR and off the coast of northern California, so it appears that the aircraft is in fact going to continue on to Honolulu. N888PV originally left Rutherfordton, NC on 14-Jul-2015, and had made its first attempt to depart McMinnville, OR on 30-Jul-2015. The ferry flight is being conducted by Southern Cross Aviation, using the flight number SXA1232.

Today, N826X one of the two Colombian based Drummond Company DHC-6's is scheduled to arrive back in the U.S., likely for maintenance work to be carried out. N826X was last at West Georgia Regional (KCTJ) from March to June of 2014.

Friday, 21 August 2015

The Washington DHC-6-300 N167WC has been a regular fixture at Vancouver for the past 22 years. but still looks like it just rolled off the production line. It is used to reach the family owned compound on Stuart Island, BC and with the super yacht Attessa IV.

Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Registration cancelled 03-Aug-2015, and registered to RUAG Schweiz AG, Emmen 17-Aug-2015 as HB-LRQ. The aircraft had recently been flown to the RUAG facility in Bern, to be prepared for European Coastal Airlines in Croatia.

The aircraft can be seen below after arrival from Loganair, and prior to the application of the new Swiss identity.

Following removal of the ferry tanks at Murrieta, CA P2-MCZ departed again fairly quickly and covered another 1,100 miles yesterday before a night stop in Elk City, OK.

330 - DHC-6-300 P2-MCZ Airlines PNG, Boroko

16-Aug-2015

Murrieta, CA (F70) - Saint Johns, AZ (KSJN/SJN)

Saint Johns, AZ (KSJN/SJN) - Elk City, OK (KELK/ELK)

Today the aircraft should arrive at the National Aerotech facility in Hampton, GA (barring any en route weather issues). The delivery flight from Port Moresby will have taken six days and covered about 9,000 miles.

Saturday, 15 August 2015

After a brief break in Honolulu, today P2-MCZ is continuing on to the U.S. mainland with the next stop set to be at the Ikhana Group facility at Murrieta, CA. Once there the ferry tank installation will be removed and the aircraft will continue on.

Tuesday, 11 August 2015

P2-MCZ has now departed Port Moresby embarking on its delivery flight to North America. The aircraft is expected to be ferried to National Aerotech, who will prepare it for delivery to the new operator.

Saturday, 8 August 2015

Flew to Bern, Switzerland 04-Aug-2015, and UK registration cancelled 05-Aug-2015 on export to Switzerland. Expected to enter RUAG in preparation for delivery to European Coastal Airlines in Croatia. As of today, there is no new Swiss registration showing on the FOCA database.

Thursday, 6 August 2015

Registered 05-Aug-2015; this aircraft flew Victoria, BC - Springbank, AB on 11-Jul-2015 for storage, it had previously been parked at Victoria since 07-Aug-2014.

906 - DHC-6-400 C-GVTU Planes & Parts Ltd., Turner Valley, AB

Registered 05-Aug-2015; this aircraft flew Victoria, BC - Springbank, AB on 11-Jul-2015 for storage, it had previously been parked at Victoria since 23-Aug-2014.

MSN 634 of Aero Contractors is seen below at Lagos, Nigeria back in 2005. This aircraft remained in Africa until 2008, and after a brief period in the U.S. it went on to Papua New Guinea and then Indonesia.

MSN 721 XA-UOA sustained major damage in an accident at the Vista Hermosa airstrip, located at Tequesquitengo back on 22-Dec-2014. The recovery and preparation for shipment to Viking Air via container is seen in the series of photos below. (the bottom middle photos are from the original accident scene).

MSN 721 began life as a survey aircraft for Geosurvey International, delivered in 1980, after a short stint in Australia it spent most of its life in the Seychelles. It was delivered to Mexico for Transportes Aéreos Terrestres in 2010, joining their existing fleet of Twin Otters and Dash-8's.

The Warren Vistaliner is today heading back home to Honduras; it had been in the U.S. since 22-Jun-2015, and had been flown into Wipaire's Leesburg facility in late Jun/early Jul for maintenance work. It can be seen in the photo below while in Leesburg.

C-GVOT departed the paint shop last evening and arrived in Victoria as can be seen in the second photo below. This will become the fourth Series 400 for Air Seychelles, and carries the name "Isle of Denis" - like the other three it is expected that the Seychelles registration will be some derivation of the aircraft's name. Upon delivery to Air Seychelles it will likely allow for the release of another DHC-6-300 to leave the fleet.

C-GVOT is seen below prior to departure to the paint shop on 19-Jul-2015.

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